Category Archives: Veterans Law

PENDING CLAIMS DOCTRINE

Posted on December 9, 2012 by asknod

Several of you have emailed me concerning the effective date of your claims. There seems to be a lot of misinformation about this. I received an interesting article put out by several “scholars” at VA, or perhaps quoted by VA, on the … Continue reading →

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CAVC KNOWLEDGE 6–THEORY OF RELATIVITY

Posted on December 7, 2012 by asknod

When you get to the CAVC and you are preparing your defense, the proper thing do is to express every theory of service connection-anything- no matter how far-fetched. It should only be theories advanced in your BVA appeal which behooves … Continue reading →

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VARO–VINDICTIVE? NAW. JUST DOING OUR JOB

Posted on December 3, 2012 by asknod

This one will curl your hair. Imagine being protected by a five year old rating. Well, protected inasmuch as you know it’s not getting better. Now, compound that to within a few short months of being protected forever at 20 … Continue reading →

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BVA–STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES

Posted on December 3, 2012 by asknod

Who’s dumber? The Vet who eats rat poison for almost a year and goes blind or the VAMC who should have cut him off after six months? Regardless, the damage is done. It reads a lot like my problems list. … Continue reading →

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BVA–EARLIER EFFECTIVE DATE

Posted on December 3, 2012 by asknod

From the Meriwether Lewis and William Clark Memorial VARO in  Portland As many years as I have been doing this, there is always someone such as Mr. Lewis and Clark here who tries to imply that just because he filed in … Continue reading →

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CAVC KNOWLEDGE–5–JMRs

Posted on November 24, 2012 by asknod

Sadly, some of this knowledge I am preparing to discuss seems to be on a “need to know” basis much like classified info. You’ll never hear it from VSOs which is peculiar. After all, they profess to have their ear … Continue reading →

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VET SUES VA AND WINS OVER HCV

Posted on November 23, 2012 by asknod

How many times have you been told that HCV is not a “robust” virus? That it cannot be transmitted via sex or jetguns? That it’s highly improbable that any Veterans ever picked up this bug in service in spite of … Continue reading →

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BVA–WHAT PART OF “NO” DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND

Posted on November 13, 2012 by asknod

FROM THE HENRY JAMES FORD MEMORIAL VARO IN DETROIT Sometimes those funny VLJs just think that the CAVC is funning them. Therefore they feel obligated to fun the CAVC right back. After two “funnings” the BVA finally gets the impression … Continue reading →

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Throw the VA a “penalty flag”.

Posted on November 13, 2012 by joeaveragevet

You have probably seen the Southwest Airlines Commercials.  They “throw the penalty flag” when competing airlines try to charge customers “bag fees”. I suggest you likewise “throw the penalty flag” if the VA tries any of these things with you, … Continue reading →

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BVA–BAD MOON RISING

Posted on November 12, 2012 by asknod

Here’s one of those remands where the BVA is asking for a little more hemp rope to throw over the limb. Watch closely as VLJ Deborah Singleton carefully steps  around all the different types of hepatitis and  artfully rearranges this … Continue reading →

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